LymphomaJournal.com
Title
Lymphoma Journal: A Personal Look at Surviving Cancer & Chemo
Description
I have a problem with cancer sites on the internet. There are so many sites that give cold clinical descriptions of the situation I'm in that I found myself with more questions than answers. I wanted people, pictures, diagrams, and metaphors I could relate to. What I got was a bunch of acroynms. Thus I have set out to make a more warm, human spot on the internet, somewhere where the environment is not sterile, hope is not fake, and love is not restrained.
I want to help people with cancer. It's a terrifying time. The future is unimaginable, filled with questions. I for one felt very alone. I felt (very wrongly) like the youngest person alive with cancer. I knew nothing at all about the real treatment of it. Most of my initial learnings came from National Cancer Institute booklets. Most of the things I read I immediately wished that I hadn't. But over time I realized that that knowledge was indispensable. The more I learned and heard from peer survivors, the better I felt. Much better. And because of my learnings, as time has continually presented new challenges, I have been all the better equipped.
I wrote most of my group emails in order to terrify my friends and family (people without cancer). I needed some company with my misery, so I wrote about the gruesome details without restraint. To a newly diagnosed cancer patient some entries may be disturbing. Thus keep in mind, Disclaimer 2, Disclaimer 3, Disclaimer 4, and Disclaimer 5:
